Elemental Shaman DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.2)

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Elemental Shaman. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.

At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and layers of optimization that you can apply to your character that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, trinkets, and combinations in a way tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to consider all the variables.

The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best.

Many people overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item-level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item-level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear. For more stats information, please refer to our dedicated page.

We only provide "Best in Slot" lists as a mandatory requirement stemming from certain guilds and players thinking they absolutely need to mindlessly chase that one item in that one slot and nothing else will do. Sometimes, raid leaders enforce a very strict "BiS list" for loot council without any nuance; other times, it is players themselves enforcing it on themselves.

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BiS Gear for Elemental Shaman

Overall BiS List Manaforge Omega BiS List Mythic+ only BiS List

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Overall BiS List for Elemental Shaman

This list contains items available from the raid, Mythic+, as well as crafted items.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Voidglass Kris	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Off-hand	Vagabond's Torch (720) with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, Versatility and Mastery	Crafted — Inscription
Helm	Nathrian Usurper's Mask	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Momma's Mega Medallion	Operation: Floodgate
Shoulder	Fangs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Pure Dexterous Fiber	Campaign
Chest	Furs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Glyph-Etched Vambraces (720) with Writhing Armor Banding, Versatility and Mastery	Crafted — Leatherworking
Gloves	Claws of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Clasp of Furious Freedom	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Tassets of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Chain Boots	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Ring #2 alternative (if using Trinket #2 alternative)	Radiant Necromancer's Band	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Diamantine Voidcore	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2 alternative	Azhiccaran Parapodia	Eco-Dome Al'dani

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Raid only BiS List for Elemental Shaman

This list contains ONLY items from the Manaforge Omega raid.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Voidglass Kris	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Off-hand	Event Horizon	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Helm	Bite of the Astral Wastes	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Chrysalis of Sundered Souls	Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Shoulder	Fangs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Pure Dexterous Fiber	Campaign
Chest	Furs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Arcanotech Wrist-Matrix	Plexus Sentinel in Manaforge Omega
Gloves	Claws of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Clasp of Furious Freedom	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Legs	Tassets of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Chain Boots	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Band of the Shattered Soul	Dimensius The All Devouring in Manaforge Omega
Ring #2	Logic Gate: Omega	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #1	Araz's Ritual Forge	Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Diamantine Voidcore	Fractillus in Manaforge Omega

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Mythic+ only BiS List for Elemental Shaman

This list contains ONLY items available in Mythic+ dungeons in Season 3.

The main focus of this list is targetting Haste and Mastery pieces. It is not meant as an "equip all these items together" list. You still need to get some Versatility and a little Critical Strike after that.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Soul-Scribe's Tabiqa Dagger	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Off-hand	Sanctified Priory Wall	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Helm	Nathrian Usurper's Mask	Halls of Atonement
Neck	Cabochon of the Infinite Flight	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Shoulder	Fangs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Pure Dexterous Fiber	Campaign
Chest	Furs of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Consecrated Baron's Bindings	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Gloves	Claws of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Discount Mail-Order Belt	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Legs	Tassets of Channeled Fury	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Sabatons of Measured Time	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #1	Signet of the False Accuser	Halls of Atonement
Ring #2	High Nerubian Signet	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #1	Lily of the Eternal Weave	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #2	Azhiccaran Parapodia	Eco-Dome Al'dani

Static Best in Slot lists are only an indicative tool in a vacuum; we recommend using the following tools: Raidbots Top Gear and its Droptimizer options.

The new Reshii Wraps cloak introduced in Patch 11.2 is a new Artifact obtained through the campaign and upgraded regularly. You should try to upgrade it whenever you can and use whichever secondary stat you lack, having Mastery by default is reasonable.

Note the special boots Interloper's Chain Boots are particularly excellent for us, and that Band of the Shattered Soul is very good as well.

For more information on how to acquire or upgrade the belt, make sure to check out our dedicated guide!

The 11.2 Elemental Tier Set bonuses are all desirable and none are dramatically overpowered. You will almost certainly use only Farseer for raid content, and Stormbringer for most Mythic+ situations. Note that these should not change rotational priorities or talent choice significantly for single-target, other than us likely dropping Primal Elementalist for Liquid Magma Totem with 4p. For Mythic+, we are likely to end up dropping all the elemental pet synergy talents and path to Splintered Elements with them once 4p is acquired.

• Shaman Farseer 11.2 Class Set 2pc
• Shaman Farseer 11.2 Class Set 4pc

Farseer 2-piece: Ancestral Swiftness summons an empowered Ancestor for 15 sec that deals 10% increased damage and healing.

This is an extra Ancestor, in addition to the regular one already generated by Ancestral Swiftness. The extra "empowered" Ancestor behaves exactly like a regular Ancestor in every way, except that Ancient Fellowship procs will spawn a regular Ancestor.

This is a strong 2p significantly enhancing our damage 50% of the time. You do not really need to track this, simply play as normal. This makes it more desirable to potentially hold onto Ancestral Swiftness for a few seconds if important priority targets are about to show up.

Farseer 4-piece: Ancestral Swiftness increases the damage and healing of your spells by 25%, reduces the mana cost of your spells by 25% and increases the recharge rate of Lava Burst by 50% for 8 sec. You are likely to be dropping Primal Elementalist and Echo of the Elementals.

The only important part here is the first one. This makes your Ancestral Swiftness "window" even more powerful and those 8 seconds may be worth tracking in order to try and maximize this damage window with all your hardest hitting spells before it fades, similarly to how the last few seconds of Ascendance are played. The mana cost reduction does essentially nothing, and the Lava Burst recharge rate is much weaker than it reads, it gives you on average fewer than 2 extra Lava Bursts per minute.

• Shaman Stormbringer 11.2 Class Set 2pc
• Shaman Stormbringer 11.2 Class Set 4pc

Stormbringer 2-piece: Ascendance has a 100% chance to grant a charge of Tempest and every 9 Awakening Storms now activates Ascendance for 6 sec.

Note that both Deeply Rooted Elements and Shaman Stormbringer 11.2 Class Set 2pc procs will grant the Tempest charge, but will not grant the Tempest if Ascendance is already active. The Ascendance proc functions exactly like a Deeply Rooted Elements proc otherwise. Unfortunately, you will likely want a new WeakAura to track your Awakening Storms procs in order to know when your next one will proc Ascendance. This bonus also has the benefit of giving a nice reliable boost to your burst by giving you Tempest immediately when you press Ascendance.

Stormbringer 4-piece: Nature damage increased by 3%, and Ascendance empowers your next 2 Tempest to gather a storm above that deals 1.6 million Nature damage to its primary target and reduced damage to nearby enemies after 1.5 sec.

Like the 2p bonus, Deeply Rooted Elements procs also give you this effect unless you were already in Ascendance form. This is a strong multi-target bonus, additional targets receiving approximately 70% of the original damage. This special effect lasts 30 seconds and can stack multiple times.

The Durable Information Securing Container belt introduced in Patch 11.1.7 functions as Season 2's Cyrce's Circlet equivalent, both mechanically and role-wise. It is obtained through Delves.

It has gradually scaling item level (up to 701) and modular special abilities, except instead of having to carry and swap out gems, you can simply "use" the item to change which of its abilities you want to use.

You will likely replace this belt with a good Hero track or any Mythic track belt.

We recommend using:

• Static Charge or whichever secondary stat bonus sims the best for you for all content.

This weekly loot system remains much the same. You can select ONE item out of a maximum pool of 9, depending on how many raid bosses you defeated, your Dungeon clears and how many Delves and Weekly World Quest you accomplished in the previous week.

You can learn more about this system on our dedicated Great Vault page.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Gilded Undermine Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +9 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +8 Dungeon, as those are wasted Crests you may not get back for a very long time.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

Unsurprisingly, you should sim your character to determine which upgrades give the most bang for your buck at any point in time. Beyond that, you generally want to maximize your weapon (and offhand), then your jewelry, and after that it is generally best to upgrade the armor slots that give the most stats: First Chest, Helm or Pants, then Gloves, Shoulders, Boots and Belt.

What you want to craft not only heavily depends on loot/vault RNG, but also on your progression level and whether you want immediate power to blast now, or want to maximize the medium/long term effectiveness of your character. In all likelihood, you will not fail to clear a raid encounter on week 1 or 2 just because you're missing a little potential DPS on your character, you will do so because of mechanical errors.

Our generic recommendation is not going to please most people, but aims to reach the best middle-ground between getting power reasonably early and not regretting your choice due to later loot/vault. As long as you do not have a Mythic track weapon, wait for your 2nd Spark of Starlight before crafting and:

1. If you have a Mythic track one-handed weapon (ideally Voidglass Kris), craft a Vagabond's Torch with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Writhing Armor Banding.
2. If you have a Mythic track two-handed (ideally Voidglass Spire) by now but no one-handed weapon, craft Glyph-Etched Vambraces and either or Glyph-Etched Binding or Glyph-Etched Stompers (if you do not think you will get Interloper's Chain Boots and already have a good belt) with Duskthread Lining.
3. If you did not get a Mythic track weapon from Vault or the raid, craft a Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.

There are alternative possibilities:

• If you want to not have to think about it and craft something you know you will keep forever, you can immediately craft Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Duskthread Lining and recraft it later to Writhing Armor Banding if you get a good one-handed weapon and then craft Vagabond's Torch with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.
• You can also get much more power immediately by crafting the offhand right now, but you are gambling on the fact you will get a good one-handed weapon, and may be extremely sad when you get a Mythic staff (especially Voidglass Spire) in Vault.
• You can get a lot of power right now by crafting an Everforged Dagger with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, and craft Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Writhing Armor Banding immediately as you get your second Spark. This means you give up on Voidglass weapons entirely, and seeing weapons in your Vault will make you sad. This is a reasonable choice if you are focused on Mythic+ and really want to go push key levels immediately.

Embellishments are significantly weaker in The War Within compared to Dragonflight. As long as you get "something", it makes only a small difference what embellishment you get.

Our current generic recommendation is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on your offhand as well as a Writhing Armor Banding to complement it, typically Glyph-Etched Vambraces.

Note that Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension takes a long time to stack and drops entirely if you spend more than a few seconds out of combat.

Alternatively you may want to get a couple of Duskthread Lining.

No other embellishment competes with these, though if you really have to craft Jewelry, you can settle for an Elemental Focusing Lens.

Soulbinder Naazindhri drops Voidglass Spire and Fractillus drops Voidglass Kris. You will ideally want either of those, with Voidglass Kris being best in slot by a notable margin, because it allows you to use Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a crafted offhand.

Nothing really competes with these, but people wanting an early power boost while waiting for them may just craft a Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.

The new Band of the Shattered Soul is a very rare item from Dimensius The All Devouring. It does not have ideal secondaries but is good enough that its special effect makes it worth using over anything else for the last 2 fights of the raid due to the presence of significant Cosmic damage. That being said, it is just a nice bonus and you are perfectly fine using anything else.

While professions do not generally give player power, there are possible exceptions in some circumstances. Suppose you want to min/max your player power in all possible situations. In that case, you should be an Alchemist and an Engineer. Note that the actual uses of their unique bonuses are highly conditional and, for the most part, should not dictate your profession choice.